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If the bill becomes law, Mecklenburg County voters would vote as soon as this fall on a one percent sales tax to help fund billions of dollars of transportation topics.

Lawmakers said legislation is needed to protect fish in North Carolina's coasts and sounds.

The state Senate is scheduled to vote Thursday on regulating hemp and THC products, an effort to keep the products away from young people.

Juneteenth is celebrated annually on June 19 to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States.

North Carolina alt-country indie rock band Wednesday is an exemplar in evocative songwriting. On Sept. 19, they will release their sixth and most ambitious full-length, "Bleeds."

The Trump Administration's cuts to foreign aid and scientific research have led to the termination of public health efforts to combat tuberculosis and neglected tropical diseases. Durham-based nonprofit FHI360 ran those programs.

Republicans in the state Senate are putting multiple controversial LGBTQ policies in a single bill that moved forward Wednesday. The proposals were added to a bill labeled "prevent sexual exploitation" that would regulate pornographic websites and had passed the House with unanimous support.

Multi-instrumentalist and composer Adrian Younge chats with WUNC music reporter Brian Burns ahead of his show at Motorco in Durham on June 24.

Democrats wanted to file a discharge petition to try to force a Helene bill with $435 million in relief funding out of Senate committee.

North Carolina is the only state on the East Coast that allows shrimp trawling in sounds and estuaries.

R. Kelly's attorneys say the R&B singer collapsed in prison and was hospitalized. Kelly is serving time at a Butner, North Carolina federal facility related to separate convictions for child sex crimes and racketeering.

Students who were a part of North Carolina State University's turtle rescue team conducted the research.